The World Bank pioneered global HIV and AIDS financing early in the emergency and remains committed to achieving Millennium Development Goal 6, to halt by 2015 and begin to reverse the spread of HIV and AIDS, through prevention, care, treatment, and mitigation services for those affected by HIV and AIDS.
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The objective of the Second Gujarat
State Highway Project (GSHP-II) for India is to provide a
clear assessment of potential environmental impacts
associated with project... Show More + interventions, which forms basis for
decision making and to evolve the principles for
implementation of environmental management in the project,
including the implementation arrangements, supervision and
monitoring for effective implementation. Some of the
negative impacts and mitigation measures include: (1) the
designs have been worked out within the available Right of
Way (RoW) of 30 m for three shops belonging to scheduled
tribe (ST) households and 10 shops owned by non-ST
households in Sankheda taluka; (2) the design for the
corridor has been worked out within the available RoW of 24
m to minimize land acquisition and resettlement impacts on
land in Meghraj Taluka; and (3) the road development will be
taken up within the available RoW of 24 m, to avoid land
acquisition and impact on structures. Show Less -

The objective of the National AIDS
Control Support Project for India is to increase safe
behaviors among high risk groups in order to contribute to
the national goal... Show More + of reversal of the HIV epidemic by 2017.
The project has three components. (1) Scaling up targeted
prevention interventions component will support the scaling
up of Targeted Interventions (Tis) with the aim of reaching
out to the hard to reach population groups who do not yet
access and use the prevention services of the program, and
saturate coverage among the High Risk Groups (HRGs). In
addition, this component will support the bridge population,
i.e. migrants and truckers. (2) Behavior change
communications will include: (i) communication programs into
society and to encourage normative changes aimed at reducing
stigma and discrimination in society at large, and in health
facilities specifically, as well as to increase demand and
effective utilization of testing and counseling services;
(ii) financing of a research and evaluation agency to assess
the cost-effectiveness and program impact of behavior change
communications activities; and (iii) establish and evaluate
a helpline at the national and state level to further
increase access to information and services. (3)
Institutional strengthening component will support
innovations to enhance performance management including
fiduciary management, such as the use of the computerized
financial management system, at national and state levels. Show Less -

The development objective of the Orissa
State Roads Project (OSRP) is for businesses and households
in project implementation areas to utilize cost-effective
road infrastructure... Show More + and have the opportunity for significant
reduction in their transportation costs. This Environmental
Assessment (EA) document evaluated impacts and suggests
mitigation measures, included in the document, in the
following areas : sources of construction materials,
locations prone to erosion; wildlife sanctuaries; drainage
and water logging; reserve and protected forest along
project routes; protection to medicinal plants during road
construction; direct of and indirect impacts on sensitive
receptors, such as schools, colleges, health centers and
hospitals; land acquisition requirements; places of tourism
interest; impacts during design and construction phase;
public consultation with project affected peoples (PAPs);
religious structures (temples, mosques, mazars, chabutras)
and impact on surface and ground water sources (wells, hand
pumps, tube wells); vehicular pollution (air and noise)
during construction; and finally, applicability of
environmental laws, regulations and policies of the State of
Orissa, procedures for forest and environmental clearance by
the Ministry of the Environment, applicability of acts and
rules to the OSRP, and compliance with international
conventions relatives to the protection of the environment
of which India is a signatory, and the Bank's
operational safeguard directives on the environment, natural
habitats, forestry, involuntary resettlement, peoples and
cultural property. Show Less -

The development objective of the Orissa
State Roads Project (OSRP) is for businesses and households
in project implementation areas to utilize cost-effective
road infrastructure... Show More + and have the opportunity for significant
reduction in their transportation costs. This Environmental
Assessment (EA) document evaluated impacts and suggests
mitigation measures, included in the document, in the
following areas : sources of construction materials,
locations prone to erosion; wildlife sanctuaries; drainage
and water logging; reserve and protected forest along
project routes; protection to medicinal plants during road
construction; direct of and indirect impacts on sensitive
receptors, such as schools, colleges, health centers and
hospitals; land acquisition requirements; places of tourism
interest; impacts during design and construction phase;
public consultation with project affected peoples (PAPs);
religious structures (temples, mosques, mazars, chabutras)
and impact on surface and ground water sources (wells, hand
pumps, tube wells); vehicular pollution (air and noise)
during construction; and finally, applicability of
environmental laws, regulations and policies of the State of
Orissa, procedures for forest and environmental clearance by
the Ministry of the Environment, applicability of acts and
rules to the OSRP, and compliance with international
conventions relatives to the protection of the environment
of which India is a signatory, and the Bank's
operational safeguard directives on the environment, natural
habitats, forestry, involuntary resettlement, peoples and
cultural property. Show Less -